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"Poem for a Jody" a Navajo
kid, "About Leaving."

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I was telling you about the red
cliff faces of the Lukachukai

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Mountains how it is going away.

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And near Tsegi-- the
red and brown land,

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that is like a woman,
healthy and strong,

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ready to give birth
to many children.

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And you don't ever want
to go, but do anyway.

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The second part, leaving.

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Towards spider spring, I was
amazed at the wall of stones

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by the roadside.

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Our baby, his mother, and I were
trying to find the right road,

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but all we found
were ones' deeply

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rutted and high-centered.

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We were trying to find a place
to start all over, but didn't.

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On the way back, we passed
by the stone walls again.

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The stones had no
mortar, they were just

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stones balancing
against the sky.

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